2012  Workshop & Event Schedule

 

February 3, Friday

12:30-1:30

Lunch & Learn-Emotional intelligence: Self-Awareness and Self Management

James Van Auken, MBA

Research has shown that emotional intelligence is four times more important than IQ in determining job performance and life success.  Join with other professionals and acquire tools and techniques to cultivate your emotional intelligence. 

Cost: $25.00, Lunch Provided

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February 10, Friday

7:00-9:00pm

JP Amonte, DC 

Dr. JP Amonte will present on the science and physiology of yogic breathing (pranayama), physical postures (asanas) and the states of meditation (samadhi).  Pulling from modern research and personal experience, Dr. Amonte will address the Body-Mind-Spirit connection while giving insight into Eastern and Western methods that will enhance healing and enrich personal insight on all three levels.  Each participant will gain an academic understanding of Applied Spirituality along with tools to evolve their personal practice.

Dr. Amonte is a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic West, a Cayce-Reilly Massage Therapist, and Hypnotherapist. He has a Cayce-based practice in Virginia Beach. Currently he is teaching and lecturing for the Cayce/Reilly school of Massotherapy, Atlantic University, the Association for Research and Enlightenment as well as Hot House Yoga.  Dr. Amonte has an extensive yoga background; he has been a dedicated practitioner for over nine years.

CE credit: YA (2 hours) 

Cost: $25.00

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February 11-12, Saturday and Sunday

Weekend Scholar Lecture Series

Spiritual Yoga Practices in Daily Life

Saturday 9:00-12:00, Avery AJ Jones, E-RYT 500

Delve deeper into your spiritual yoga and meditation practice or begin a new one with advanced yoga practitioner Avery (AJ) Jones. In this workshop you will explore and experience the power of centering, yoga posture, guided relaxation, breath awareness, and meditation.   Reap the many health benefits tied to each of these ancient practices; discover how they can be incorporated into your daily life.  AJ will teach you how to carve time out of your busy schedule and establish a meaningful yoga practice.  

The session begins with a gentle yoga practice available to students of all levels, experience and physical ability. Please wear comfortable loose clothing and bring a yoga mat if you have one. 

Workshop Topics Include:

Avery Arjuna Jones (AJ) is an experienced registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and has attended formal teacher trainings with Satya Greenstone, Swami Asokananda, David Life and Sharon Gannon, Dharma Mittra, and Manju Jois.  In the Integral Yoga Style he has completed teacher trainings in Beginner through Advanced Hatha Yoga, Yoga for Stress Management, and Teaching Meditation. He has a wonderful ability to help students take their practice to the next level and approach postures in a non-intimidating way. AJ teaches yoga and meditation full time and is currently the owner and director of Atma Bodha Yoga Studio in Virginia Beach, VA.   

 

A New Humanity for a New Earth:

Enlivening the Seven Senses

Saturday 2:00-5:00 and Sunday 9:00-5:00, Linda Edge, PhD 

We are seven-sense beings, not five-sense beings.  With all of our faculties on board, we can better participate in and with an evolving world. This workshop is designed to keep you in the forefront of change by reintroducing you to your natural abilities to aspects of self that may be dormant, denied, underestimated, or underused. 

Our Telepathic Nature can be rediscovered, developed, and relied upon.  Intuition can be brought to the forefront and our ordinary five senses hearing, taste, smell, sight, touch can easily reveal their extraordinary capabilities.   We are more than we think we are.  Life is now inviting us to rediscover and enliven our natural selves our brilliant, creative essences so that we can partner with Life Itself to co-create what is new, what is next.  

 In this day and a half workshop, you will learn how to:

1. Enliven the Seven Senses through Practical Exercises
2. Use Intuition and Channeling to align with the Natural Self in Everyday Life
3. Consider the Mind-Body Connection as More than Meets the (Ordinary) Eye
4. Work with the Will to Remake the Self-Image
5. Deepen Helping-Relationships by Enhancing Perceptual Capacities 

 Learning Outcomes

• Learn and experiment with exercises designed to enliven each of the seven senses
• Participate in group activities fashioned to heighten intuition, connect with Nature, and deepen interpersonal interactions
• Consider the value of enhanced perceptual capacities in Counseling, Coaching, Mentoring, and Other Helping Relationships

 CE credit: YA (12 hours)

Cost: $160.00 (Vegetarian lunch included both days)

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February 21 & 28, March 6 & 13, Tuesday Evenings

7:00-9:00pm

Adult Education- Reincarnation Studies and Survival Research

Drs. Nan Zingrone and Carlos Alvarado 

Want to learn more about the scientific study of past life memories? 

Are you curious about scientific research on after-death communication, death-bed visions and death-bed witnesses? 

Join us in this four-session evening course on survival research. We will focus on reincarnation studies and the work of the late Dr. Ian Stevenson, who spent more than thirty years investigating the past life memories of children, Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson, who is following up Stevenson's informants and working to understand if remembering a past life gives a child an advantage in this life, and others of Stevenson's colleagues who have gathered cases from around the world. Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson s work on death-bed visions will also be featured as well other research into the impact of after-death communication and death-bed visions on belief in an afterlife. Drs. Carlos Alvarado and Nancy Zingrone of Atlantic University will present a lively overview with plenty of time for discussion.

Week 1: Researching Past Life Memories

Week 2: Birthmarks and Behaviors

Week 3: The Impact of Past Life Memories on This Life

Week 4: Other Evidence for Survival after Death

 Cost: $99

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April 6, Friday

12:30-1:30

Lunch & Learn: Stress Management in the Workplace & Mindfulness Techniques for your Workday

Michele Tryon, MA & Marsha Engle MSW, MEd, CMT, RYT200

Are you experiencing work related burn-out, or fatigue? This workshop will introduce you to mindfulness techniques that can support your health and well-being, and re-energize you.   Enjoy breathing techniques to relax and energize, do some chair yoga to stretch out tense muscles, and experience some simple meditation practices.  The practice of mindfulness is a wonderful way to reduce stress and enhance your mood and where better to practice than in the workplace!

Michele Tryon MA, BS, CCLS is an Atlantic University Graduate who co-founded The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc.   She provides training and consulting to support children, families, and professionals facing health challenges.

Marsha Engle MSW, MEd, CMT, RYT200 is a psychotherapist who teaches mindfulness practices one-on-one in her therapy practice and in group settings.  She has consulted with businesses and healthcare systems system and led mindfulness workshops throughout Hampton Roads for the last few years. 

 Cost: $25.00, Lunch Provided

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April 21-22, Saturday and Sunday

Weekend Scholar Lecture Series

The Monroe Experience with Carol Sabick (de la Herron)

Saturday 9:00-5:00 

In this one day workshop, Sabick will discuss his own journey of self discovery while also leading participants through a series of experiential exercises using the Monroe Institute s audio guidance technology. Participants will gain first-hand experience in exploring inner perceptions as well as being introduced to The Monroe Institute s methods and effectiveness. Identify the beginning levels of consciousness (specifically Focus Levels 10, 12, 15 and 21) developed by the Monroe Institute. 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the beginning levels of consciousness (specifically Focus Levels 10, 12, 15 and 21) developed by the Monroe Institute.
2. Experience, describe and integrate specific tools (collectively known as the Preparatory Process ) for enhancing the effectiveness of inner exploration.
3. Experience and describe the consciousness state of deep relaxation designated as Mind Awake, Body Asleep/Focus 10.
4. Experience and describe the consciousness state of Expanded Awareness/Focus 12.
5. Apply Problem Solving Techniques that can be used in their daily lives after the workshop.
6. Identify specific encodings or memory cues for recreating desired states or enhanced performance.  

 

Sunday Morning Session:

Parenting:  Our Sacred Contract

Michele Tryon, MA, Sunday 9:00-12:00

Have you ever wondered why you chose the parents that you did, or wondered what your child has to teach you? This workshop will consider spirituality and the sacred contract that exist in the unique parent child relationship.  Recognize the true spiritual nature of children, and discover the powerful impact that our responses to children can have.  As we nurture the parent/child relationship we begin to transform the collective consciousness.      

Participants will explore:

1. parent child relationships
2. soul contracts
3. shifts in the parenting paradigm (from compliance to relationship)
4. aspects of conscious discipline and mindful parenting practice

This workshop will be a collaborative learning experience including lecture, and experiential activities.

Michele Tryon MA, CCLS is a Certified Child Life Specialist, a nationally recognized trainer/consultant for Nurturing Parenting Programs ® and co-author of The Nurturing Program for Parents and Their Children with Health Challenges©   Michele is Co-founder and Executive Director of The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing quality of life for children and families facing health related challenges. Michele has experience with pediatric hematology/oncology, critical care, child abuse and neglect, general med/surgical, and palliative/hospice care. Michele is a faculty member of the National Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care and helped to develop the CompassionNet Program, a pediatric family support and palliative care program serving a 36 County region in New York State.  Michele earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology Child Life from Utica College of Syracuse University and her graduate degree in Transpersonal Studies from Atlantic University.

Sunday Afternoon Session:

Mental Health and Mindfulness

Marsha Engle, M.Ed., Sunday 2:00-5:00 

There is an explosion of interest in the area of mindfulness across many disciplines and our institutions.  What is mindfulness?  How is the breath used?  How can mindfulness be helpful to our wellbeing?

 

Mindfulness is a practice that allows us to reduce suffering and increase wellbeing by:  1) being less reactive to what is happening in the moment; 2) focusing our attention on the present moment, which is free of past and future entanglements and complications; 3) stepping out of our conditioning and seeing things differently, freshly; and 4) cultivating compassion and acceptance towards self and others.

 

Mindfulness practices free us from what Tara Brach, psychologist and meditation teacher, calls the "trance of unworthiness".  This is the lens from which we often perceive and experience our world; the view that says "something is wrong is wrong with me".  Participants will:

 

1.  Gain an understanding of what mindfulness is and its many benefits.

2.  Experience various mindfulness techniques to bring greater joy and ease in their lives.

3.  Learn how the practice of mindfulness actually creates healthy changes in the brain.

Marsha Engle MSW, MEd. is a clinical social worker in private practice who has many years of experience utilizing mind-body-spirit approaches for maintaining physical and mental health. She has specialized training in trauma work (EMDR) and in the treatment of depression and anxiety. Marsha blends her knowledge of cognitive therapy with her knowledge as a RYT-200 Yoga Instructor, massage therapist, and Reiki practitioner to facilitate healing at multiple levels. Marsha has led mindfulness seminars throughout Hampton Roads over the last few years.

 Cost: $160.00 for both days, Lunch included

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